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Montecristo No. 2

Deze longfiller sigaar van Montecristo is geproduceerd in Cuba. Het model van deze sigaar is heel speciaal, een pyramidevorm die moeilijk te produceren is. Deze sigaar wordt alleen door volleerde sigarenrollers (torcedores) gemaakt. De sigaar heeft een lengte van 15.6 cm en een diameter van 20.6 mm. Het binnengoed komt uit Cuba. Het omblad en dekblad komen ook uit Cuba. De sigaar is gemaakt van 100% Cubaanse tabak. De sigaar heeft een sterkte van 4 op een schaal van 1-5. Deze sigaar heeft een rooktijd van 60-80 minuten.

 

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Cuba

Cuba is in the Caribbean and is world famous for its high quality tobacco and cigars. Even before Columbus discovered Cuba in 1492 were all tobacco grown in Cuba by the Cohiba's a local Indian tribe. Cuba is a poor country and can hardly develop itself since the US embargo in 1962.

Most tobacco plantations are here still maintain full manual. No tractors with diesel engines but oxen pulling the plow. Everything is done here by hand and you can taste it in the finished product. Nowadays produced 180 million cigars annually, of which 90 million handmade cigars are exported abroad.

The tobacco from Cuba has an exceptionally high quality, the soil and the humid tropical climate and a centuries-old experience of growing tobacco. The tropical heat is often a mist over the fields where the tobacco grows. A natural shade deck. There are several regions in Cuba where the tobacco grows.

The famous Vuelta Abajo region in the province of Pinar Del Rio is the area at the western tip of Cuba, nestled between mountains and coast and is the largest province. It is heuveligachtig, green and lush, somewhat like Southeast Asia. The soil and climate conditions are perfect for growing tobacco, the main industry. Here, is cultivated to 70% of the Cuban tobacco. The bottom is of red, sandy clay. Full of minerals that give Cuban cigars somewhat of a salty touch. Tobacco is grown on small fields, often privately owned, although the tobacco is sold at a fixed price to the government. The fields give the landscape the image of a patchwork. Everywhere can be seen small farms and typical dry sheds. Most of the land is used in this area for the cultivation of wrapper, the other for filler and binder.

Center of the island north of Trinidad is the large tobacco field Remedios, the oldest tobacco fields of Cuba. From this area also comes in good Sigarenfabriek Elephant used in its blend. Then there are two tobacco fields near Vuelta Abajo namely Semi Vuelta, Partido. Located in the South East still Oriente, a smaller area north of Santiago de Cuba. In this area is primarily tobacco are grown for the production of cigarettes.

Because there is no export of Cuban cover or wrapper there are several countries in the world who grow tobacco with the original Cuban seed. Especially in the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and Honduras. Yet these tobaccos have different properties and characteristics than the tobacco grown in Cuba.

Cuban cigars stand for quality and class. Typically, the full character of a strong and relatively heavy. Precisely for this reason very suitable for the experienced smoker. They are characterized by relatively fixed rolled cigars and therefore have a considerable tensile strength. While smoking unfolds a strong spicy and earthy aroma with notes of leather with a slight peppery taste salty.
Manufacturer and Montecristo brand

Montecristo is the best known and perhaps most highly regarded of all Habano brands. Besides the best selling Cohiba Cuban brand in the world. One could argue that Montecristo is the reference to which all other Habano are tested. The Montecristo cigars really typical Cuban flavor. Rich, full and very pronounced.

The name comes from the novel "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas. The tobacco factory H. Upmann Havana, where the brand was created in 1935, read the reader (Lector) for the novel to the cigar rollers (Torcedores). This novel was so well received that it was decided to name the new brand to the name of the main character in the novel.

Its exquisite tobacco blend consists exclusively of carefully selected leaves from Vuelta Abajo, which comes from the best tobacco in the world. The two blends, one with medium to full-bodied, and the second of the Línea Open, with a milder flavor, offer an excellent flavor that can continue to fascinate both the most experienced smokers as newcomers to the world of the Habano. Production takes place mainly in factory Jose Marti in El Laguito.
The classic line

The historical range of Montecristo was originally only composed of the models (vitolas) numbered 1 to 5, and gradually the series was extended to a range that covers the tastes of the most demanding smokers. Thus late 60s still models Especial No. 1 Especial No. 2, and Joyita added. In the 70's came the models Montecristo A and B there. In 2004 a new model added to the brand: Edmundo, a thicker model and two years later, the line extended to the Petit Edmundo and in 2010 this line is completed with the introduction of the limited edition Grand Edmundo. Edmundo The name comes from Edmond Dantes, the main character from the novel by Dumas. The cigars of the classic line are really typical Cuban flavor. Rich, full and very pronounced. This line is medium to full in its potency.

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